Band 6.0 IELTS Writing Task 2 Model Answer

Overall Band Score: 6.0 · Cambridge IELTS 16 · 2026-10-31

IELTS Writing Task 2 question

In the future all cars, buses and trucks will be driverless. The only people travelling inside these vehicles will be passengers.

Do you think the advantages of driverless vehicles outweigh the disadvantages?

Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Student answer (Band 6.0)

Autonomous driverless cars, buses, and trucks are considered to be in the future. Drivers will go extinct, with only passengers inside these vehicles. This advancement can lead to disadvantages that I think outweigh the advantages.

Firstly, the developments in artificial intelligence and autonomous vehicles will result in driverless cars, buses, and trucks, which include only normal passengers without anyone controlling the vehicle. This can elliminate the burden of driving and focusing on the road for ordinary drivers, while also having a decline in the number of road human mistakes that lead to traffic jams. For example, if all cars at a road became automatic without drivers, all of them will follow the rules and not cross each other resulting in a high traffic or arguments that happen between drivers on a daily basis.

On the other hand, many people take driving as a profession, like Uber drivers, taxis, and school bus drivers. These drivers may suffer the loss of their earning because of this advancement. Additionally, artificial intelligence robotic systems can still have errors, if a simple mathmatical calculation was wrong, it can result into a traggic accident. Moreover, these driverless cars work by electricity and having zero control on it by passengers means losing control if the electricity went out.

In conclusion, although the driverless vehicles concept is fascinating and can solve many problems in traffic and remove some burdens of driving, it can also result into economic losses for drivers that take driving as their job. In addition, the high risk of deploying and trusting this technology can result into serious and dangerous accidents. That's why I think the drawbacks of this technology can be greater than the benefits.

AI examiner evaluation

Task Achievement / Task Response: Band 6.5

Your position is clear from the introduction—“disadvantages…outweigh the advantages”—and is maintained in the conclusion. You address both sides with relevant points: reduced driving burden and fewer human errors as benefits, and job losses, system errors, and power failure as drawbacks. The examples help make the discussion relevant, particularly the reference to professional drivers. However, some ideas are less fully developed than others. The traffic example makes a broad claim that automated vehicles would all follow rules and avoid congestion, without explaining how this would work in practice. The electricity point is also asserted rather than supported. To strengthen the response, explain the likely scale or consequences of each point and connect the examples more directly to why the disadvantages outweigh the benefits.

Coherence and Cohesion: Band 6.5

The essay has a coherent overall structure: an introduction states your view, two body paragraphs present contrasting arguments, and the conclusion restates your judgement. Signposting such as “Firstly,” “On the other hand,” and “In conclusion” makes the main stages easy to follow. The progression within paragraphs is generally understandable, but some links feel mechanical, and the first body paragraph combines several claims without clearly separating or developing them. In the example, the connection between vehicles following rules and avoiding “a high traffic” is not fully clear. Use more precise referencing and transitions to show how each explanation supports the main point, and organise each paragraph around one central idea with a developed example.

Lexical Resource: Band 5.5

You use relevant topic vocabulary, including “autonomous vehicles,” “artificial intelligence,” “traffic jams,” and “economic losses,” and the reader can understand your main arguments. There are also attempts at more specific phrasing, such as “the burden of driving” and “deploying and trusting this technology.” However, noticeable spelling and word-choice errors reduce precision: “elliminate,” “mathmatical,” and “traggic” are misspelled, while “normal passengers” and “a high traffic” are unnatural or unclear combinations. Some wording is also repetitive, particularly repeated references to “driverless cars” and “advancement.” Build accuracy with collocations and topic-specific alternatives, and proofread spelling so that your adequate range is expressed more naturally and precisely.

Grammatical Range and Accuracy: Band 5.5

You attempt a mix of simple and complex forms, including a relative clause (“mistakes that lead to traffic jams”), a conditional example (“if all cars…became automatic”), and a concession introduced by “although.” These structures help communicate the argument, and the overall meaning remains clear. Some grammatical errors persist, especially in conditional and clause construction: “if all cars…became automatic…all of them will follow” shifts awkwardly between conditional forms, and “if the electricity went out” would be clearer as part of a complete, carefully structured consequence. There are also issues with articles and sentence boundaries, as in “at a road” and the comma splice in “systems can still have errors, if…”. Review conditional patterns, article use, and punctuation, while continuing to vary sentence structures.

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